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Today in History ~ September 29
Events0440 - Pope Leo I the Great, installed
1066 - William the Conqueror invades England [H]
1187 - Saladin's army marches into Jerusalem
1349 - People of Krems Austria accuse Jews of poisoning wells
1564 - Robert Dudley becomes earl of Leicester
1567 - War of Religion - Huguenots try to kidnap king Charles IX
1608 - Captain Newport arrives from England with supplies for colonists
1758: - English Admiral Horatio Nelson was born.
1785 - Chasidic sect is excommunicated in Cracow Poland
1789 - 1st congress adjourns
1789 - US War Dept established America's first standing army -- 700 troops who would serve for three years.
1829 - London's reorganized police force, which became known as Scotland Yard, went on duty
1859 - Great auroral display in US
1863 - Georges Bizet's opera "Les Pecheurs des Perles" is produced (Paris)
1864 - Battle of Waynesboro & New Market Heights VA
1879 - NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their players
1902 - Impresario David Belasco opens his 1st Broadway theater
1904 - 1st monument honoring Spanish American War erected (Monroeville Ohio)
1906 - US intervenes in Cuba ousts dictator Estrada Palma
1907 - Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral
1911 - Italy declares war on Turkey
1915 - 1st transcontinental radio telephone message is sent
1915 - Victor Herbert's musical "Princess Pat," premieres in NYC
1918 - Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line during World War I
1920 - Joseph Horne Company in Pittsburgh sells radios for $10
1922 - Mussolini asks Vatican for support of fascist party program
1923 - Britain began to govern Palestine under a League of Nations mandate.
1927 - Telephone service begins between US & Mexico
1930 - Lowell Thomas debuts on CBS Radio replacing Floyd Gibbons
1930 - NYC College offers 1st course in radio advertising
1933 - Little King, Cartoon Character, by Von Beuren, debut
1936 - In the presidential race between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Alf Landon, both parties used radio for the first time.
1938 - Treaty of Munich signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier & Chamberlain
1940 - 1st US merchant ship "Booker T Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington Delaware
1941 - Nazis continue mass murders at Babi Yar, Ukraine [H]
1943- Gen. Dwight Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice aboard the British ship Nelson off Malta.
1944 - Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia
1946 - "Adventures of Sam Spade" debuts on CBS Radio
1947 - Dizzy Gillespie presents his 1st Carnegie Hall concert in NY
1947 - Former Yank manager Joe McCarthy signs to manage Red Sox
1948 - Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet" opens at Park Avenue Cinema
1950 - Telephone Answering Machine created by Bell Laboratories
1953 - "Make Room for Daddy," starring Danny Thomas, premieres on ABC-TV
1953 - Milton Berle Show premieres
1953 - US government gives France $385 million for combat in Indo-China
1953 - The New York Times claims that Russian citizens want the "American dream" [H]
1954 - "Barefoot Contessa" starring Ava Gardner premieres at the Capitol
1954 - "Star is Born" starring Judy Garland & James Mason premieres
1954 - Willie Mays famous over-the-shoulder catch of Vic Wertz' 460' drive
1955 - "Sergeant Preston," debuts on CBS
1955 - Arthur Millers "View From The Bridge," premieres in NYC
1958 - "Studio One," TV Anthology Drama last airs on CBS-TV
1959 - Brunei has its first written constitution promulgated.
1959 - "Philip Marlowe," debuts on ABC-TV
1960 - "My Three Sons" starring Fred MacMurray, debuts on ABC-TV
1961 - "Detectives," TV Crime Drama; moves to NBC-TV
1962 - "My Fair Lady" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 2,715 performances
1962 - "Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Show," debuts on ABC-TV
1963 - "Judy Garland Show," debuts on CBS-TV
1963 - "My Favorite Martian," starring Ray Walston, debuts on CBS-TV
1963 - 2nd session of Ecumenical council, `Vatican II,' opens in Rome
1963 - Rolling Stones 1st tour (opening act for Bo Diddley & Everly Bros)
1964 - Greece & Bulgaria close boundaries
1971 - "McMillan & Wife," debuts on NBC-TV
1971 - Cyclone & tidal wave off Bay of Bengal kills as many as 10,000
1976 - "Alice," debuts on CBS-TV
1976 - Jerry Lee Lewis, attempting to shoot soda bottles hits his bass player Norman Owens twice in the chest
1976 - Syria drives Palestinian guerrillas out of Lebanon
1978 - John Paul I was found dead in his Vatican apartment just over a month after he was installed as pope of the Roman Catholic Church
1979 - John Paul II became the first pope to visit Ireland as he arrived for a three-day tour.
1982 - 1st broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV
1982 - Seven people in the Chicago area died after unwittingly taking Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide.
1983 - "A Chorus Line" 3,389 performance to become longest running Broadway Show at the time.
1983 - Congress authorized Pres Reagan to keep 1,600 US Marines in Lebanon
1984 - Elizabeth Taylor, undergoing rehabilitation at the Betty Ford Clinic
1985 - "MacGyver," starring Richard Dean Anderson, debuts on ABC-TV
1986 - Mary Lou Retton retires as a gymnast
1986 - USSR releases US journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges
1988 - UN peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize
1988 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., marking America's first return to manned space flight following the Challenger disaster.
1988 - Stacy Allison of Portland, Ore., became the first American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, which at 29,035 feet above sea level is the highest point on earth.
1989 - Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was convicted of battery for slapping a Beverly Hills police officer who had pulled over her Rolls-Royce for expired license plates. (As part of her sentence, Gabor served three days in jail.)
1990 - "Millie's Book" written by 1st Lady Barbara Bush for president's dog is a best-selling non-fiction book
1990 - Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years
1991 - Sharing power for first time in 26 years, Zaire's President Mobuto Sese Seko named opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi prime minister.
1992 - Brazil's President Collor became the first Latin American leader to be impeached.
1992 - Magic Johnson announced he was returning to the Los Angeles Lakers less than a year after he retired because he had the AIDS virus.
1994 - 1st phase of OJ Simpson murder trial jury selection ends (304 chosen)
1994 - The House voted to end the age-old practice of lobbyists buying meals and entertainment for members of Congress.
1995 - OJ Simpson trial sent to the jury
1997 - Jury selection in Terry Nichols Okla bombing trial begins
Birthdays Today
1402 - Ferdinand, the Saint, Portuguese slave of Fez/saint
1511 - Miguel Servetus, Spain, physician (Christianism Rostituta)
1518 - Tintoretto, Italian painter
1547 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, author (Don Quixote)
1725 - Robert Clive, founder (British empire in India)
1758 - Horatio Nelson, Burnham Thorpe Britain, naval hero (Trafalgar) [H]
1831 - John McAlister Schofield, Major General (Union volunteers)
1864 - Miguel de Unamuno Jugo, Bilbao Spain, philosopher (Ensayos, Teatro)
1894 - Franco Capuana, composer
1901 - Enrico Fermi, Rome, US physicist, led 1st chain reaction (Nobel 1938)
1907 - Gene Autry (Orvon Gene) ('The Singing Cowboy': actor: 100+ cowboy westerns; singer: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine, The Death of Mother Jones, You are My Sunshine, Mexicali Rose, Back in the Saddle Again; owner: California Angels, Golden West Broadcasting; CMA Hall of Famer; only person to have 5 Hollywood Walk of Fame stars [film, radio, TV, stage, records])
1907 - Richard Harkness (journalist: NBC News)
1908 - Greer Garson (Academy Award-winning actress: Mrs. Miniver [1942]; Sunrise at Campobello, Pride and Prejudice, Little Women, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The Singing Nun)
1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni (director: Blowup, Zabriskie Point, The Red Desert, The Passenger, Love in the City)
1913 - Stanley Kramer (director: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Inherit the Wind, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Judgment at Nuremberg, Ship of Fools, On the Beach)
1916 - Trevor Howard (actor: Superman: The Movie, Gandhi, Mutiny on the Bounty, Ryan's Daughter, The Count of Monte Cristo)
1920 - Vaclav Neumann, conductor (Czech Philharmonic)
1923 - O A "Bum" Phillips, football coach (Houston Oilers/New Orlean Saints)
1930 - Richard Bonynge, Sydney Australia, conductor
1931 - Anita Ekberg (actress: La Dolce Vita, War and Peace)
1932 - Robert Benton, Texas, writer/director (Kramer vs Kramer)
1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis (Rock and Roll Hall of Famer [1986]: singer: Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On, Great Balls of Fire, Breathless; cousin of singer, Mickey Gilley and evangelist, Jimmy Swaggart)
1938 - Mike McCormick (baseball: San Francisco Giants pitcher: Cy Young Award [1967])
1939 - Larry Linville (actor: M*A*S*H, Grandpa Goes to Washington)
1940 - Mike Eischeid (football: punter: Oakland Raiders Super Bowl II. Minnesota Vikings Super Bowl VIII, IX)
1941 - Kermit Zarley (baseball)
1942 - Jean-Luc Ponty, France, fusion violinist (Frank Zappa)
1942 - Madeline Kahn (Tony Award-winning actress: The Sisters Rosensweig [1993]; Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Oh Madeline, Mr. President)
1943 - Lech Walesa (Nobel Peace prize-winner [1983]: founder of Polish solidarity)
1944 - Mike Post, composer (Rockford Files, Hill St Blues, Magnum PI)
1947 - Altie Taylor (football)
1948 - Bryant Gumble (TV host: The Today Show on NBC; brother of Greg)
1948 - Mark Farner (musician: guitar: singer: Grand Funk Railroad: We're an American Band, Walk Like a Man; solo: LP: Mark Farner, No Frills)
1949 - Steve Busby (football)
1953 - Warren Cromartie (baseball)
1956 - Sebastian Coe (runner: world record holder: 800-meters [1:41.73 - June 10, 1981])
1957 - Tim Flannery (baseball)
Famous deaths
1530 - Andrea del Sarto, [d'Agnolo di Franceszo], Italian painter, dies at 44
1560 - Gustaaf I, king of Sweden (1523-60), dies
1575 - Charles de Boisot, water beggar, dies in battle at about 45
1619 - John Lippershey, inventor of telescope, buried
1800 - William Billings, US composer (Rose of Sharon), dies at 53
1910 - Winslow Homer, painter (Prout's Neck), dies
1913 - Rudolph C K Diesel, German constructer (Diesel Motor), dies at 55
1962 - Patrick Corry, developed self-rotating rock drill, dies in the Bronx
1967 - Carson McCullers, US author (Heart is a Lonely Hunter), dies at 50
1975 - Casey Stengel, NY Yankee manager (1949-60), dies in Glendale at 85
1988 - Charles Addams, cartoonist (Addams Family), dies of heart attack at 76
1989 - A A Busch Jr, brewer/baseball owner (St Louis Cards), dies at 90
1997 - Roy Lichtenstein, pop artist, dies of pneumonia at 73
1998: Former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley died at age 80.
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